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J. PATON.

APPLIANCE FOR HANGING AND EXHIBITING BOOT OR SHOE LAGES. No. 399,552. Patented Mar. 12, 1889.

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JAMES 'PATON, OF JOHNSTONE, COUNTY OF RENFREW SCOTLAND.

APPLIANCE FOR HANGING AND EXHIBlTlNG BOOT OR SHOE LACES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,552, dated March 12, 1889.

Application filed November 24, 1888. fierial No. 291,830. (No model.) Patented in England September 22, 1870, hie-13,710-

.Z'o all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES IATON, residing in Johnstone, in the county of Renfrew, Scotland, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, have invented Improvements in Appliances t'or Hanging and Exhibiting Boot or Shoe Laces and such like goods, (for which llritish Patent No. 13,710, dated September 22, 1870, has been obtaincch) of which the following is a specification.

My invention has reference to and comprises appliances for hanging or carrying and conveniently exhibiting in bundles for sale boot or shoe laces and textile materials such as braids, cotton, silk, or woolen yarn or thread and such like goodswhich are made up into small hanks, pairs, or skeins and made convenient for taking off and selling the hanks individually, and advantageously displaying them in windows for retail.

The nature and novelty of the invention or improvements consist all as follows: In forming a hanger of such a construction as to carry a great number or bundle of hanks individually by a central bow or loop at their upper ends close together, each hank being free to be threaded on and removed individually, as required for sale.

And in order to enable others skilled in the art to which this invention relates to understand and put the same into practice I have hereunto appended an explanatory sheet of drawings, in which the same reference-letters are used to indicate corresponding parts in all the figures where shown.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one construction of my new or improved hanger made in the form of an undulatii'ig brander coil of spiral wire, A A, and with a central hanging loop, A, and showing it filled with bundles or pairs of boot or shoe laces Z, hanging vertically and ready for removal cit the ends 1' of the wire A A. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the hanging device shown in Fig. 1, but to a larger scale, and with the laces I removed. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the wire hanging device somewhat modified from that shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and which consists of a series of straight wires, A A, bound or tied together bya central trans verse wire, A with the hanging loop A in this case formed on the wire A Fig. a shows a perspective view of the new hanging device made in the form of radial wires A A, projecting out from a fixed central loop, A; and Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing the new hanging device made in the form of a duplex scroll of wire,r A, onto which the bundles of laces or articles lare threaded on or oft by the outer ends, r

Referring to the drawings, one convenient construction of this novel hanger consists in forming it of wire with a hanging bow or loop, A, in the center and undulating the two ends A A of the wire A from this central bow, A, horizontally in parallel directions brandcrwise on opposite sides, as shown in Fig. 2, to balance each other, with a raised rounded outer end, A, on each side to allow the loops of the hanks to pass over this and be threaded on over the whole length of the wire A on either side, or be removed singly, as required, for sale, and prevent them from fallin g olt and allow the bundle to be balanced by its central carrying-bow, A, as shown in Fig. 1. These carrying-wires A A may be made in various straight or coiled forms, as rectangular, round, oval, scroll, or other equivalent forms. \Vhcn various qualities of colors of the hanks are desired to be carried in the same bundle, the whole might be hung by a loop, A, in the center of one cross-wire, A all the other wires, A, carrying the hanks being secured crosswise or brandelwvise to this central wire, A having the kneed-up rounded end A on each wire A for hooking on and removing the hanks from the outer ends, A, of each wire A, all as shown in Fig. 3, or these wires A A might be made to project out radially from their center carrying hook or eye A, instead of at right angles, as shown in Fig. l. hen the hanging-wire A is made in the form of a scroll, as shown in Fig. 5, itwould preferably be made duplex as a double scroll with the ends A at opposite sides and with the hangingdoop A in the center, and the bunch of hanks mightbe carried on these double-scroll wires A A by the loop A at the inner central ends of the scroll, the hanks or pairs 01": laces or articles being threaded on or oil at the opposite ends A of the two scrollwires. In anyof these arrangements the improved hanger A A is so arranged that the bundle L of hanksl (shown in Fig. 1) will hang on the wires A in a nearly-balanced manner from the center hook or eye, A, so that they can be put on or removed singly for sale or otherwise, as required, and by a further improvement this hanger A might have a small descriptive or trade-mark plate or other ticket, B, connected to it at top, forming a hanging link with a loop of cord, wire, or other equivalent, 1), attached to this for hanging the whole by.

In all cases the arms or wiresA branch out ward from the central suspending-loop in a horizontal plane, and while their outer ends are unconfined for the convenient threading on and off of the individual hanks those outer ends of the arms are sufficiently raised and rounded to prevent the hanks from slipping off. On the other hand, when the hanks are on the holder, they will lie in rows without anytendency to become entangled or lie one over the other.

I claim as my invention- The herein-described appliance for hanging and exhibiting boot or shoe laces and scribing witnesses.

JAMES PATON.

Witnesses:

W. R. M. THoMsoN, JOHN SIME, Both of 96 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Scotland. 

